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Bill Gates grabs a mason jar filled with clear liquid, licks his lips, stares straight ahead momentarily, then takes a sip.
“It’s water,” he says, smiling and nodding. People whistle and applaud.
Five minutes earlier, it was definitely not water. The online video shows how a machine that Mr. Gates is investing in, called the Omni Processor, converts sewage sludge into energy and distilled H2O – or as the title on Mr. Gates’ blog puts it, “How to turn poop into drinking water.”

An epic college prank video showing a group of Harvard University students leading an unsuspecting tour group around Yale's campus went viral yesterday, and with good reason — the video is as hysterical as it is blatantly ridiculous.

California teenagers riding a bus that collided with a FedEx truck on Thursday were part of a program that buses disadvantaged students to Humboldt State College, according to a heartbreaking New York Times article.

Make no mistake. The process of high school seniors applying to colleges is big business. There is a lot every small business owner can learn from how they pursue prospective students when they visit their campus: Feed the People First: It immediately puts prospects in a buying mood. On every college campus tour, they feed you. People are happier and more likely to listen after they eat. Businesses learned this along time ago with a lot of presentations starting with coffee and donuts.

Bill Gates did not become the world’s richest man by making foolish investments. Now Gates and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, Tao Invest, Kleiner Perkins and Foundation Capital among others, are betting that the Aquion battery, invented by Jay Whitacre of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has a high-tech future. The Aquion battery costs the same as a lead-acid battery, but lasts twice as long.

While many colleges achieved major accomplishments over the past year, Stanford University arguably had the best 2013. From athletics to Nobel Prizes, Stanford students, alumni, and faculty dominated in a variety of fields. Here's five big reasons why 2013 was Stanford's year: